topic Replacing open spool with Lp in Operating System - HP-UX

Replacing open spool with Lp

so_2 — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:32:11 GMT

Hi,

I need to replace open spool in hp-ux 11:00 server with lp. This is a customer requirement.Could some the gurus explain me the advantages of ecah having over others as well as disadvantages.

And how do I make the change .

The question seems very silly , but be honest , I dont really know the difference betweel openspool and lp .

Please help.

Thanks
so

Re: Replacing open spool with Lp

Peter Godron — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:07:36 GMT

Hi,
11.0 support ended 31/12/06.
Open spool was not ported beyond 11.0
lp is an 'old established' product

Re: Replacing open spool with Lp

Bill Hassell — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:29:09 GMT

OpenSpool is a dead product and most admins find it very cumbersome to use and troubleshoot. The lp spooler is the classic SysV spooler which has been around for a couple of decades. Just run swremove to remove the product. It should restore 'normal' lp services.

Re: Replacing open spool with Lp

Jaime Bolanos Rojas. — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:34:02 GMT

so,

Advantage as stated above is that lp has full support:

http://www.hp.com/softwarereleases/releases-media2/discon/openspool/5990-6915.htm

Regards,

Jaime.

Re: Replacing open spool with Lp

Rita C Workman — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:28:36 GMT

We used Openspool to provide spool mgmt to control special print jobs that required operators to set up special print jobs.
And of course all those jobs were all coded with the "np" command, not "lp".
We always had HP JetDirect "lp" printing as well, for quick no operator required jobs.

To get rid of Openspool we replaced it with another Print Spool Management Product. We went with LPPlus (but there are plenty of others). And simply wrote a wrapper script to change Openspool's "np" commands to work with the LPPlus' dcclp command. That way no programs (hundreds) had to be changed.

So, if your problem is that your jobs use that command, then maybe what you need is a simple wrapper script to have it change the "np" command to "lp".

Now if pre-coded jobs with print commands isn't your issue, then just follow Mr. Hassell's advice to get just back to using "lp".

Hope this made some sense to you,
Rgrds,
Rita

Re: Replacing open spool with Lp

Geoff Wild — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:01:41 GMT

I replaced IBM PSM printing with the native HP-UX lp spooler 5 years ago. I actually run it in a Serviceguard package.

The lp spooler does everything I need to support printing for SAP - as SAP looks after the driver and fancy formating - we just print raw from the spooler.

The other plus - lp spooler is small footprint - doesn't consume a lot of resources and is easy to manage.

Downside - to remove a printer requires stopping the spooler - about a 5-7 second hit.

I print to Jet Direct, Xerox, Intermec and Genicom printers with no issues.

Rgds...Geoff